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USA Today Sports Media Group
Sport
John Sigler

Will your local TV station carry Week 17’s Saints-Buccaneers game?

We’re headed for the most important game of the year for the New Orleans Saints on Sunday — a loss to the division-rival Tampa Bay Buccaneers would knock the Saints out of contention for the NFC South title, and all but eliminate New Orleans from the playoffs altogether.

So will you be able to watch the game? While FOX Sports has assigned its A-team broadcasting crew of Kevin Burkhardt, Greg Olsen, Eric Andrews and Tom Rinaldi to this matchup, it falls in a crowded window with four other games kicking off at the same time while being shown by the same network.

The result is an odd broadcast map from 506 Sports, which has the game being shown in the Saints’ and Buccaneers’ home markets as well as large parts of Arkansas, Georgia, and South Carolina; Kansas City, St. Louis, and Cincinnati will also be carrying the broadcast. That’s represented in areas highlighted in orange on this map:

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